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40 PCI fast ethernet adapter driver
47 driver provides support for Adaptec Duralink fast ethernet adapters
48 based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" chipset.
52 .Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
54 ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter
56 ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter
58 ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter
60 ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter
62 ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter
65 The AIC-6915 is a bus master controller with an MII interface.
67 supports high and low priority transmit and receive queues, TCP/IP
68 checksum offload, multiple DMA descriptor formats and both polling
69 and producer/consumer DMA models.
70 The AIC-6915 receive filtering
71 options include a 16 entry perfect filter, a 512-bit hash table
72 for multicast addresses, a 512-bit hash table for priority address
73 matching and VLAN filtering.
74 An external MII-compliant transceiver
75 is required for media interfacing.
77 Multiport adapters consist of several AIC-6915 controllers connected
78 via a PCI to PCI bridge.
79 Each controller is treated as a separate
86 driver supports the following media types:
88 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
90 Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
91 The user can manually override
92 the autoselected mode by adding media options to the
99 option can also be used to select either
105 Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
108 option can also be used to select either
117 driver supports the following media options:
119 .Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
121 Force full duplex operation
123 Force half duplex operation.
126 For more information on configuring this device, see
130 .It "sf%d: couldn't map memory"
131 A fatal initialization error has occurred.
133 happen if the PCI BIOS not configured the device, which may be because
134 the BIOS has been configured for a "Plug and Play" operating system.
135 The "Plug and Play OS" setting int he BIOS should be set to "no" or
136 "off" in order for PCI devices to work properly with
138 .It "sf%d: couldn't map ports"
139 A fatal initialization error has occurred.
141 happen if the PCI BIOS not configured the device, which may be because
142 the BIOS has been configured for a "Plug and Play" operating system.
143 The "Plug and Play OS" setting int he BIOS should be set to "no" or
144 "off" in order for PCI devices to work properly with
146 .It "sf%d: couldn't map interrupt"
147 A fatal initialization error has occurred.
148 .It "sf%d: no memory for softc struct!"
149 The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information
150 during initialization.
151 .It "sf%d: failed to enable I/O ports/memory mapping!"
152 The driver failed to initialize PCI I/O port or shared memory access.
153 This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
154 .It "sf%d: watchdog timeout"
155 The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
156 the network connection (cable).
165 .%T The Adaptec AIC-6915 Programmer's Manual
166 .%O ftp://ftp.adaptec.com/pub/BBS/userguides/aic6915_pg.pdf
171 device driver first appeared in
176 driver was written by
177 .An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu .